Profil Financier
Jeff Skoll occupe actuellement le rang #701 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $5.9 B (+$200 sur 24h).
Jeff Skoll became eBay's first full-time hire and president in 1995; he left eBay in 2001, three years after its IPO.
His Skoll Foundation has put on the Skoll World Forum since 2004, bringing together business, government, philanthropy and civil society leaders focused on social change.
His charitable Skoll Foundation and Skoll Fund have distributed some $1.3 billion globally since launching in 1999.
In 2024, Skoll announced that after two decades he was shutting down his movie production company Participant Media, which produced An Inconvenient Truth and many other films.
Skoll founded millennial-focused cable TV channel Pivot TV in 2013 but shut it down in 2016.
Skoll was born and raised in Canada and pumped gas to pay his way through the University of Toronto. He became a U.S. citizen in 2007.
He met eBay founder Pierre Omidyar while Skoll was an MBA student at Stanford University.